N30/Buenos Aires press release

N30: Against the WTO Millennium Round

LET OUR RESISTANCE BE AS TRANSNATIONAL AS THE CAPITAL! Tuesday 30, as from 3:00 p.m. in front of the Stock Exchange (SARMIENTO 299, Buenos Aires)

501 Collective Group invites both affinity groups and individuals to take part in the worldwide action day for this tuesday, November 30, in several cities of the world against the WTO's Millenium Round.

In this WTO meeting, major outlines for the direction of economic politics and the capitalist system in general will be defined for the next years. Because of its actual and symbolic meaning, this meeting represents the summit of the great capital deciding on the fates of the world. In response to this, and following a first worldwide global action experience of June 18 against the C-7 Summit in Koln, thousands of activists around the world will manifest in diverse manners, with the perspective of renovating the ways of making politics and going on with the construction of an international resistance network.

501 bursted into the Argentinean political stage last October 24 (general elections day) stating that this so-called democracy was miles away from actually being one, since hardly anything fundamental was indeed being decided on that day. This November 30, we will keep on testing this construction of "democracy and politics beyond the vote". For this reason, this time our protesting action will be focused in a summit where the outlines of exploitation for millions of human beings as well as the plundering and destruction of the planet will be set, and where policies will be imposed on states which, from their emptied democracies, will have to implement.

Our action will take place in front of the Stock Exchange of the city of Buenos Aires, in 25 de Mayo and Corrientes, this Tuesday as from 3:00 p.m.

There, a mocking auction of human values, nature and persons, and a barter fair (everyone bringing anything for barter especially invited) will be performed as a way of expressing social bonds in opposition to the WTO's neoliberal trade logic, represented in Buenos Aires by the Stock Exchange. We are looking forward to counting on you all, either as particular or as organizations. Every new proposal to add and enhnace the common action will be welcome.